Hospitals Focus On Doing No Harm

Last week, I reported on the problem of preventable harm in hospitals. It has been estimated that each year between 98,000 and 440,000 people die as a result of preventable...

In India, Dispensers of Balm Travel To Deaths Door

A white van coursed through narrow roads along the monsoon-soaked coastline of Kerala, a state in southwestern India. Inside, Radha Upasarna, a volunteer, and two nurses lo...

The Human Incubator

Sometimes, the best way to progress isn’t to advance — to step up with more MONEY, more technology, more modernity. It’s to retreat. Towards the end of th...

A Training Transformation In Reproductive Health

There is no question that many women live better lives thanks to expanded options for planning for healthy families. Yet, too frequently, the brightest possibilities elude ...

True Review TV – Life Ok’s Captivating New Hope

Amol Palekar recently shared with an associate his amazement at the meticulousness of the makers of Ek Nayi Umeed: Roshni, wherein the veteran director has made a comeback ...

True Review TV - Medical Drama, A Genre On The Rise

As Life OK?s game changer Mahakumbh- Ek Rahasaya, Ek Kahani has wound up to a logical end, the channel has lined up a new show to take on the 8 pm slot -- Roshni, ??a medic...

Emergency Care Essential to Stop Maternal Deaths

I was a gynecologist in Bo, Sierra Leone, when Mariama arrived on a motorcycle in front of our clinic. She was heavily pregnant and pale, sandwiched between her mother and ...

After Genital Cutting in Somalia, a Woman Chooses Reconstructive Surgery in America

Women who went through female genital cutting before coming to America face unique challenges. It is as if we were designed to live only in the society of our origin; we do...

Looking Back With Concern- Health 2014

A Snapshot of Global Health- 2014

• Between 2000 and 2012, measles deaths worldwide have been cut by almost 80% ??from 56...
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